Monday, December 27, 2010

A Dr. Seuss Give away

Check out this give away of some fun Dr. Seuss Fabrics. See the Give away here.

I hope to get back to working on my Farmers Wife quilt blocks this week. I have all the blocks sewn and am ready to attach the Sun Bonnet Sue blocks in the black area. I cannot decided if I should had stitch them down or machine stitch them down. I am leaning towards the hand work even though I have tons of hand work going right now.  After putting the block together I recounted where we are at and I have 13 Sun Bonnet Sue blocks left.  I stop over and had Pat the lady I am making this quilt for check it out. She paying for the fabric and I am putting it all together free for her.

If I take one of the Sun Bonnet Sue’s out of this first top we could put a picture of her mother in once square and then there are enough blocks to do a second quilt and putting a picture of her mother in that quilt too.  Since she has a son and daughter she could then in time have a quilt for each of her children or she has 2 granddaughters and a grandson that maybe these quilts could then go to them. The jury is out yet but I think that would be a wonderful plan.

She is so happy with how the quilt is looking so we are moving forward in a very positive way on this project.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Cookies

I have not made this recipe in a while but was in the mood for some Chocolate Chip type cookies

So this is what I decided to make
Chicago Crunch Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup margarine, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 T milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1 Cup Vegetable oil
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup corn flakes
3 1/2 cup flour
3 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1-12 oz chocolate chips
Slivered Almonds
Cream first 5 ingredients. Add egg; beat. Add oil, oatmeal, and corn flakes and mix well. Sift dry ingredients and add to moisture. Stir in Chips and almonds. Bake at 350 for 10 to 12 min.

It has been a Christmas with some sad news in it. We received a call from a niece that her sister had passed away. She is not that much older then our son and so the news was very unexpected that is for sure. As to what happen they are not sure. It is just a sad thing she was so happy earlier this year she just got married on 10/10/2010 and was starting her new life with her new husband and able to now go back to teaching what she loved because he covered her under his insurance so she could substitute teach and in time hope to find a job at a school.

We have not heard yet when the funeral  will be but I am sure that her parents and sister are having a hard Christmas.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

No Sun Bonnet Sue’s on the quilt yet

Well I am working on the Sun Bonnet Sue project and I am moving along nicely. I put some of the blocks up on the wall to see how they look and so far so good. You have to use your imagination a little bit. the blocks are going to have black sashing between them and right now on my white flannel wall there is not black sashing between them.

Still not to bad for the rose blocks the Sun Bonnet Sue’s are going in the black open space’s I think they will be button holed down around the edges of the muslin squares that they are on centered in the black squares.  The Sue blocks are to close to the edges for me to piece them into a quilt and so this seem to be the best plan.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Tuesday the week of Christmas

Well we got a bunch more snow yesterday at least no freezing rain or sleet that was predicted. I think it quit snowing around 6:00 or so might have been a little earlier then that not sure.  Today is one of my late start days I get two in the week. Unfortunately I got up early and got ready to go in because with the weather I was not sure if my co worker could make it she lives on a gravel road and if the wind got nasty last night it would not of been easy for her to make it in.

I called her around 5:30 and she was in and all was going well so I now have extra time this morning. That I seem to be not using constructively and playing computer games. I have lots of other things I could and probably should be doing. Oh well that is how it goes.

I did get a bunch of the rose blocks and black squares sewn with outside color strips.  So this project is coming along nicely!

Monday, December 20, 2010

New Project Sun Bonnet Sue, Weather

Last year at Christmas I promised a good friend that I would finish off the quilt blocks she had. They were made by her mother and are Sun Bonnet Sue on a swing. With each Sue’s dress made out of left over fabric from her school dresses. These blocks have been around a while and a few of them needed to be button hole around and over the last year that has gotten done.

So I am going to set the blocks together with a black fabric and border them with another fabric around that and opposite blocks are a rose preprinted fabric.

Here is a picture of sort of how they are going together.

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I have a different print to go around the blocks so that each Sun  Bonnet Sue and each rose block will have the same border then a black sashing between them.  Each Sun Bonnet block is button holed down on a muslin piece of fabric the plan is to button hole that into the center of the black square.   They were to fragile and the applique part was to close to the border to actually piece the blocks with out loosing part of the applique.

So this is the plan.

On to weather  this is what it looks like out my window as I sit at my sewing machine.

 

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Farmer’s Wife update

Well I have all but one block done off the list I am to be working on the last two months Oct. and Nov. Now there are more blocks for Dec but I am not going to worry about doing them until the week between Christmas and New Years.

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All of these are hand pieced.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Dec. and now what!

santa05I am moving along nicely with my Farmer’s Wife quilt blocks I got another group just about done I am one short of the ones I was to do in Nov. Today is the group meeting but it is not going to work out for me to go to it.

We have two vehicles and unfortunately one of them has been acting up and this weekend decided to just not work/start.  You turn the key and it grinds and grinds but will not turn over.

Today was my guild meeting but Fred had a job interview/appointment and since I kind of think that is more important them my going to a quilt meeting I am staying home.  I had scheduled to get off work early so I did that and am thinking I will do some cleaning this morning/afternoon and go to the evening guild meeting. 

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